While palling around with Benjamin Burrows, who’d rather be a spy than follow in the apothecary family tradition, Janie becomes entangled with Cold War espionage after Benjamin’s father mysteriously disappears, leaving behind a secret 700-year-old book of magic elixirs. “I was no witty, patient, adaptable Jane Austen,” the 14-year-old admits as she recalls helping to save the world in 1952. Following the paths of Neil Gaiman, Julia Alvarez and Carl Hiaasen, bestselling author Meloy ( Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It, 2009, etc.) takes a successful plunge into middle-grade fiction.īefore the House Committee on Un-American Activities can interrogate Janie Scott’s Hollywood writing-team parents for being possible Communists, they move to London.
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